Quotes About Desire

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

I mean, look at us. We're all alone in my bedroom and I'm not feeling any urge to make any kinda move on you. That's a pretty big problem.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

it is pride that lies awake in the night with its desire and its grief.